Why Love Earth?  

Love Earth - because love is a verb. Love is something we must do. Love requires selflessness. And only a selfless society can adopt the changes needed to abate climate change. It requires selflessness to change your diet, to give up your car and to shop frugally. And if we all act in this way we will end climate change.

What is the Love Earth gathering?

Concerned citizens are calling on your help to save our planet from the impending catastrophes of climate change. We believe that the policy makers of our time are still avoiding the one solution that is easy and affordable and will have a dramatic and powerful effect in reducing global warming.

A worldwide adoption of a Vegetarian/Vegan diet.

If all people in Australia could adopt a vegetarian/vegan diet we could immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40%.

At least 40% of Australia's greenhouse gases are from animal agriculture! - calculated from the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2006, using a Global Warming Potential of 72 for methane.

It is a simple inexpensive solution that will buy us more time to wean our civilization off fossil fuels. Yet the policy makers are afraid to suggest this idea for fear of losing votes.

We want to change that and get the vegetarian/vegan diet on the agenda of anyone seriously concerned about reducing the impact of climate change.

And we need your help. The Love Earth Gathering is our opportunity to encourage the world to adopt a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle so we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save our planet.

It is a celebration of love and a demonstration of unity.  

Hold your own Love Earth Gathering

You can hold your own Love Earth Gathering in your own town. Just organise a location and invite people to join you.

You can invite the important people from your area to speak and ask your town leaders to recommend the vegetarian/vegan diet to reduce your town's carbon footprint.

Email us at loveearth@y7mail.com to let us know and we will add you to the website.

Scientific Commentary

For the scientific analysis of how our lifestyle and diet is impacting our planet, contact:

Bruce Poon - Research Manager for Vegetarian Network Victoria. Mr. Poon focuses his research on the environmental impacts of diet in Australia.

Climate Change - Re-examining the data from a Vegan Perspective

email: hunter@scientist.com

To learn more about the science behind the adverse greenhouse impacts of meat and dairy production read the submission to the Garnaut Review by Professor Barry Brook (Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide), Professor Peter Singer and Geoff Russell.

Vegan/Vegetarian Nutrition

For vegan/vegetarian nutrition queries, contact:

Amanda Benham - Accredited Practising Dietitian. Amanda specialises in vegetarian and vegan nutrition.  She has post-graduate qualifications in nutrition (from Queensland University of Technology and Deakin University) and has published papers on the nutritional adequacy and planning of vegetarian and vegan diets.  Amanda has been a vegan for over 25 years and her two children (born in 1988 and 1990) are lifelong vegans.

email: amanda@techsus.com.au

In the News

Vegie diet stops environment being put at steak

According to vegetarians and vegans, the production and consumption of meat is causing a huge strain on the environment 

The Green Blog (from last year)

Vegans and vegetarians gathered in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth at 11am on Saturday (October 4, 2008) to try and encourage people to take up a meat-free diet in the name of the planet.

Petition Food V's Feed

This petition is an appeal to the United Nations and its agencies to channel available food resources to needy people and not to farm animals. The petition will close on 28 September 2009 and will be delivered on World Vegetarian Day (October 1, 2009) in New York, Rome and Geneva.

IPCC calls for a worldwide reduction in meat consumption

People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.

       Click here for Dr. Pachauri's (Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) slideshow on: "Global Warning: the impact of meat production & consumption on climate change."

Going vegie can slash your carbon footprint: study

Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, says German study.